Friedrichstal railway cut (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Saarbrücken, Germany (49.3° N, 7.1° E: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 16.4° E)

When: Westphalian (318.7 - 307.5 Ma)

• Mittleres Obercarbon

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• Saar-Nahe basin; Half-graben generated by extension on South Hunsruck bounding fault, but with some component of dextral strike-slip transtension in an intermontane setting following the Variscan orogeny

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Naturhistorischer Verein der Rheinlande und Westfalens, Bonn (NHV)

Primary reference: F. Goldenberg. 1854. Die fossilen Insecten der Kohlenformation von Saarbrücken. Palaeontographica 4:17-38 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124243: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 09.02.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Myriapoda
 Arthropleurida - Arthropleuridae
Arthropleura armata n. gen. n. sp.4, Arthropleura punctata1
Arthropleura armata n. gen. n. sp.4 Jordan 1854 millipede
Arthropleura punctata1 Goldenberg 1873 millipede
Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Adelophthalmidae
Adelophthalmus sp.3
Adelophthalmus sp.3 Meek and Worthen 1868 eurypterid
Insecta
 Dicondylia - Phyloblattidae
Friedrichsthalia blatteri n. sp.2
Friedrichsthalia blatteri n. sp.2 Guthörl 1930 winged insect
 Palaeodictyoptera -
Saarlandia flexisubcostata n. gen. n. sp.2, Althansia sahneri n. gen. n. sp.3
Saarlandia flexisubcostata n. gen. n. sp.2 Guthörl 1930 winged insect
Althansia sahneri n. gen. n. sp.3 Guthörl 1934 winged insect
 Palaeodictyoptera - Dictyoneuridae
Kallenbergia handlirschi n. gen. n. sp.2, "Dictyoneura gracilis n. sp." = Dictyoneurula gracilis5, "Polioptenus willerti n. sp." = Arltia willerti2, "Arltia aff. willerti" = Arltia willerti3, "Dictyoneurula kliveri n. sp." = Dictyoneuridae kliveri3
Kallenbergia handlirschi n. gen. n. sp.2 Guthörl 1930 winged insect
"Dictyoneura gracilis n. sp." = Dictyoneurula gracilis5 Kliver 1886 winged insect
"Polioptenus willerti n. sp." = Arltia willerti2 Guthörl 1930 winged insect
"Arltia aff. willerti" = Arltia willerti3 Guthörl 1930 winged insect
"Dictyoneurula kliveri n. sp." = Dictyoneuridae kliveri3 Handlirsch 1906 winged insect
 Palaeodictyoptera -
"Eurydictya richteri" = Eurydictyella richteri3, "Termes affinis n. sp." = Anagesthes affinis
"Eurydictya richteri" = Eurydictyella richteri3 Guthörl 1934 winged insect
"Termes affinis n. sp." = Anagesthes affinis Goldenberg 1854 winged insect
Guthorl gives location as Grube Altenwald-Saar, railway cut
1Goldenberg 1873; 2Guthörl 1930; 3Guthörl 1934; 4Jordan and von Meyer 1854; 5Kliver 1886